• lunarul@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I am curious how you’d deal with the ambiguity of contractions vs. ending single quotes

    That’s the thing, nobody even asks this question.

    you could just match on /[a-zA-Z]+/

    That would already put you in the top 10% of solutions I’ve seen so far on this problem.

    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      My confidence in my job security and general programming abilities has skyrocketed after visiting this thread